Drupal-based grants management system for the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry of Japan
Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry of Japan (METI), who has been spearheading digital transformation within the Japanese government, decided to digitalise the way grants are managed. Management of grants issued by the Japanese government is highly complex; application forms are paper-based; the evaluation and management jobs are regularly outsourced to external secretariats (who often outsource the jobs further); and each secretariat is allowed to design the process at their discretion. These elements (among others) made the digitisation a significant challenge.
